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Following the worst mass shooting in Texas history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced in a press conference that they're unable to get into the smartphone of the shooter. The reason? Encryption. While the brand of the smartphone was...

According to gizmodo.com , security researchers at Kromtech Security Center found a wide-open Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket that contained over 300,000 PDFs, each one a medical file that would fall under the governance of the Health Insurance Portability...

About two weeks ago, when Equifax first revealed their massive data breach, it was noted by many that the company didn't appear to be prepared nor equipped to deal with the demands of whatever contingency plans they had prepared for the day they would...

One of the biggest hacks in history was the Target credit hack of winter 2013, which affected approximately 60 million people. Four years later, Target is finally putting the situation behind, settling legal action brought to it by 47 states. The amount...

A couple of recent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) legal settlements emphasize paperwork over security, showing that a healthcare entity's approach to safeguarding data must be holistic: yes, you need to use encryption, and lock doors...

In 2016, Tennessee created something of a legal furor when it became the first state to require data breach notifications (DBN) even if the lost or stolen data was protected with encryption. Earlier this month, a new law took effect that "clarifies...